"Yet how exactly is creating a company any better? If you keep servicing other people interest, it could be called an illusion of freedom"

If you sell a product or service, you get to choose what goes into that product or service. Look at apple: If they listened to the general public, the Ipad would have never been released.

" You will compromise yourself at a time or another."

You don't ever need to. Plenty of companies release what they want and it just so happens to coincide with what other people want.